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Originally Posted by Sunday Independent Article
Now a rail user lobby group have questioned the vast amount of money which is earmarked for a new tunnel under the city when the old Victorian railway line could be used to service some of the city's most densely populated areas.
"They are wasting an incredible asset and instead ploughing vast sums of money into a new inter-connector tunnel".
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Originally Posted by DW
This article is open to interpretation, but does not state in any way that we are against the interconnector.
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No outright statements alright but the spin put on this by the Sunday Independent is very unfortunate.
Agreed 100% that the Pheonix Park Tunnel should be utilised & IE are increasingly contradicting themselves in their lame attempts to explain why it is not.
God knows where rail transport would be if IE didn't have RUI chomping at their heals, but I have to say that if you achieved nothing else but the construction of the interconnector in a reasonable time frame; this city/country would be substantially in your debt. Put simply, I feel it should be objective number one, even in the face of IE decisions that defy fiscal & practical logic.
Short of an outright recession, there is no reason why the interconnector cannot be funded when we have a surplus of 6.06bn over current spending in a 'bad year' coupled with a GDP to debt ratio of next to nil.